evening to visit Miss Welchman, and it was not known that he had gone out of the door. He had been in the frequent habit of visiting Miss Welchman for some time past, and it was generally understood that he was paying his ad. dresses to her by her consent, which circumstance coming to the knowledge of the deceased's brother, he had several interviews with her upon the subject to endeavour to persuade her against countenancing the courtship of Mitchell, as being an improper connection. At length she listened to her brother's advice, and promised to act accordingly; and it is supposed, that the deceased and Mitchell had several interviews upon the subject, and that he would not submit to her refusal of marriage; that Thursday was the day fixed upon for the question to be finally settled; that he went prepared with two loaded pistols to put a period to her existence in case of refusal. This is the conjecture of those who knew the circumstances of the parties. Mitchell is a gentleman's servant out of place, and has been so for some time. Next morning the relations of the deceased attended at the public-office, Bow-street, and gave information of the murder, and the full description of Mitchell. This man was afterwards apprehended near Salisbury, and being brought to town, was tried for the murder at the Old Bailey sessions in September, before Mr. Justice Heath, and found guilty upon the clearest circumstantial evidence. He was condemned, and executed. 8. At the Cambridge assizes, William Pollard, a boy only 15 years of age, was found guilty of setting fire to a house at Sawston, in the occupation of John Matthews, his uncle. The prisoner, it appeared, confessed his crime to another boy, and when examined before a magistrate, said that his uncle came to him in the field where he was working, and made a noise at him for being idle, when it came into his head to set the place on fire, which he did by placing a piece of burning turf close to the thatch. The reason he confessed was, that another person was suspected, and examined about it, and he was unwilling that person should be punished. He was sentenced to be hanged, but afterwards reprieved by the judge. 9. This afternoon, about four o'clock, numbers assembled on the Steyne, at Worthing, to witness the departure of the Princess of Wales in the Jason frigate, which had lain off Worthing since Saturday last. The Princess came to the Steyne hotel at half past four, where the honourable Captain' King, of the Jason, not being quite in readiness to receive her royal highness, she drove to South Lancing, with Lady Charlotte Lindsey, and a young boy, who is said to be patronized by her royal highness. Captain King appeared shortly afterwards on the beach, at Worthing, and went in a boat to his own barge from the Jason, and proceeded to Lancing. The female domestics of the Princess went on board at Worthing. At a little time after six, her royal highness, with her attendants, went into the barge, to which she was driven by her own coachman, in one of the small ponycarts; and was conducted to the Jason, on board of which she embarked. Her royal highness wore a dark a dark cloth pellice, with large gold clasps, and a cap in the Prussian hussar style, of violet and green satin with a green feather. The Jason and the Rosario lay at anchor about three miles from shore with their yards manned; and on her royal highness's going on board, the royal standard was hoist ed. From the barge her royal highness repeatedly kissed her hand to the female spectators, who in return waved their handkerchiefs. The Jason sailed about seven o'clock in the evening. Numbers in carriages, on horseback, and on foot, came from Worthing and the vicinity to see the Princess depart. 10. His royal highness held a chapter of the order of the garter. The knights present were the Dukes of York, Clarence, and Cambridge, the Earls of Chatham and Westmoreland, the Duke of Beaufort, the Marquis of Hertford, the Earl of Liverpool, and Viscount Castlereagh. The procession was made in the usual form; and the knights being seated, the Chancellor read a new statute for declaring his most Catholic Majesty, Ferdinand VII. King of Spain, elected a knight of the order, and his Majesty was declared elected accordingly. The chancellor then signified to the chapter the Princ. Regent's pleasure, in the name of the Sovereign, that a lineal descendant of the late Sovereign King George the Second, may, in virtue of the statute in that behalf, be elected a knight of the order. The suffrages were then taken by the chancellor, and presented to the Prince Regent, and by his royal highness's command, his royal highness William Frederick, Prince of Orange and Nassau, Prince Sovereign of the Netherlands, was elected a knight of the order. His royal highness was declared elected accordingly. The knights being called over by garter king of arins, the procession returned to the private apartment of the Prince Regent. A solemn ceremony took place in a Roman Catholic chapel at Clonmel, in Ireland, which, from the interest of the circumstance, was crowded to excess. It was the acceptance of the white veil, in the Society of the Presentation Convent, by a Miss Fanning, of Waterford, 17 years of age, with a very respectable fortune. All the gentry of the town and neighbourhsod came to witness the ceremony. 11. A country paper states, that R. Dansey, of Clater-park, Esq. and Dr. Matthews, of Belmont, both in the county of Hereford, have, in consequence of the low prices of grain of all descriptions, reduced the rents of their estates one-third. On the late rent-day at Stanfordhall, Leicestershire, Mr. Vere Dashwood requested his tenants might be informed, that although he had given notice of an advance in their rents, in consideration of the change in political affairs, he purposed blotting out the additional figure. Though an order had been sent from the Secretary of State's Office for the discontinuance of the fair in Hyde-park, and for the removal of the booths, it had not been duly enforced on Tuesday morning. Another order was in consequence issued. The people who kept the booths flattered themselves that they might hold out till the birth-day, or at least make some advantage of the excuse for selling their stock. The magistrates and deputy ranger, with police officers, went twice to the Park before the order was fully obeyed. All the booths have been removed from St. James's Park. The nocturnal excesses, therefore, which had been continued far too long, are now at an end. 12. Yesterday forenoon, about one o'clock, his royal highness the Duke de Berri arrived in London, in a carriage and six-the carriage dark green, with the royal French arms in gold. His carriage was followed by another of a similar description, and six horses, with his royal highness's suite. These carriages were followed by two Dartford post-chaises, with domestics. There were three outriders, with liveries, of dark green and gold lace. The Duke de Berri had an audience of the Prince Regent yesterday afternoon, about 5 o'clock, at Carlton-house, on his arrival in England. In consequence of the resolution of a meeting of the order of the Bath, Mr. Townsend, Bath king at arms, repaired yesterday morning, about one o'clock, to King Henry VII.'s chapel, Westminster abbey, with a warrant, signed by Lord Sidmouth, Secretary of State, and removed the banner of Sir Thomas Cochrane, (commonly called Lord Cochrane), which was suspended between those of Lord Beresford, and Sir Brent Spencer. The brass plate with his lordship's arms was taken off, and the helmet, crest, mantling, and sword, were taken down. The banner was then kicked out of the chapel, according to ancient form, by the king at arms. 13. On an eminence, near Dryburgh-abbey, called the Rockstone-hill of Newmains, was laid by the Countess of Buchan, the foundation stone of a monument to the memory of the brave Sir William Wallace, a colossal statue of whom 21 feet in height, is now in progress, and is to be erected on a suitable pedestal, on the 22d of September next, which is the anniversary of the hero's victory at Stirling-bridge. In a glass vessel, properly sealed, was deposited a transcript of George Buchanan's Eulogy of Wallace, in his History of Scotland. A colossal urn, with an inscription, is proposed to be placed adjoining to the statue, on the summit of the basaltic rock behind which the statue is to be erected. 15. At noon, a fire broke out in the wing of the Duke of Atholl's house, at Blair-Atholl. By the great exertions of the collected numbers who came forward with their assistance, the spreading of the flames to the main house was prevented, and the loss sustained was confined to the wing where the fire had commenced. 16. Died, near Crosmonna, in the county of Mayo, at the advanced age of 112 years, Thomas Gaughan. He passed 110 years of his life wholly unacquainted with sickness, and able to take a full share with the young in the labours of the field. In the county court, at the age of 106, by his clear evidence, he fully proved the validity of a survey made in 1725, thereby contributing chiefly to the termination termination of an important lawsuit. His eldest son is upwards of 70. Mr. Robins, of Beverstone, near Tetbury, lately lost 7 yearling beasts out of 18, by putting them into a piece of pasture ground, in part of which the colchicum autumnale (meadow saffron, or tube root) grew in great abundance. On their bodies being opened, the food was found clogged together, in a crude and undigested mass, incapable of passing through the proper ducts. A New York paper contains the following: "Henry Brown, a native of New Jersey, residing near Bevertown, was born January, 1686; consequently is now in his 129th year. He is a black man, with long straight hair, and wears it tied. He was in general Braddock's defeat, in 1755, and then was 59 years old. He has been a slave 70 years, has been a free man 58 years, is now in good health, can walk pretty well, has a good appetite at times, but is getting weak. He was never married; and says he wishes to die, but fears he never shall." 17. Splendid provision is making for the establishment of a Presbyterian place of worship in Kingston, Jamaica. Before the beginning of February, upwards of 8,000l. had been subscribed; since that period large additions have been made by contributions, and it is expected that the annual income of the minister will not be -less than 1oool. or 1200l. a year. About four o'clock in the morning, some villains entered the vestry of Paddington church, and took away two large deal chests containing the parish records, accounts, and plate, &c. As soon as the robbery was discovered, the parish officers gave information at Bow-street, stating that they were anxious to recover the papers, which consisted of the parish records for the last three hundred years, and which could not be replaced. The Magistrate, from the circumstances, suspected the thieves were not persons of experience in their profession, and dispatched an officer to trace them. On going to the spot he found that they had entered the Vestry-room with a skeleton key; he also traced them from place to place till he had discovered the lost treasure in an outhouse, near the church. The chests had been opened, and the thieves were deceived by the glittering appearance of the cups and plates, which were only pewter. The records were restored to the parish officers. 18. By accounts from Archangel of the 17th of June, we learn that the last winter had made greater inroads into the summer of that northern latitude than ever had been known in the memory of man. The ice of the Dwina had not broke up till the 24th of May, and even in the middle of June the White Sea was full of drift ice. No ships had then arrived at Archangel from foreign parts, but immense quantities of flax, hemp, tallow, and grain were expected from the interior of Russia. The Greenland Whale Fishery has this year been uncommonly successful. By accounts from Hull, and the other outports most interested in this commerce, it appears, that almost every ship is full. The South-sea men also have been equally fortunate; many many have lately arrived with full cargoes, and many more are expected. As Lieutenant-colonel Lamb was on his passage from Southampton to the Sussex coast, in his pleasure boat, accompanied only by one man, either in shifting the boom, or by a sudden jirk of the sail, he was forced overboard unperceived by the boatman, just opposite the hotel at Bognor, and drowned. Near Dungannon were lately found a pair of palm deer horns, measuring 15 feet 7 inches from tip to tip. Several of the lumba vertebræ, the os coccygis, and some of the ribs, were likewise found. The jaw bones are wonderful for their specific gravity, being not much lighter than an equal bulk of iron. 20. Mary Ann Adlam was indicted at the late Somerset assizes, for petit treason, in the wilful murder of her husband, Mr. Henry Allen Adlam, at Bath, on the 18th ult. The prisoner was a strawhat maker, resident in Bath-street, in that city. It appeared in evidence, that the deceased had used most abusive and provoking language to the prisoner, who, in a passion stabbed him with a knife, The Jury, after a few minutes deliberation, returned a verdict of Manslaughter, and the prisoner was sentenced to 6 months impri'sonment. On the verdict being given, Mrs. A. fell into strong convulsions. On her recovering, the Judge told her, that seeing the state of her feelings, he should not enlarge on her offence. 22. The following extract of a letter relative to Joanna Southcote, said to be from a clergy man of the Established Church, is in a Birmingham paper "If, Sir, you have seen the letter, and do not mean to insert it, this part of the business I must leave for you and your conscience to reconcile. In addition to the cradle, I can inform you that such is the strength of faith of the supposed fanatics and deluded people, that the society in, Birmingham have sent up to London many presents for the reception of the Prince of Peace; and, in addition to those already sent, we are now going to send up a silver cup and salver, with a lid, on which is placed a ball representing the globe, on which is perched a dove, with an olive branch; perhaps, at some future time, I may inform you of the inscriptions thereon. The mission of this woman was to fall in Birmingham in less than six months, and not a vestige be left behind: this was the cry of the Ministers of the Gospel; but you see, Sir, it has not fallen yet. Our motto from the beginning was, "Truth is strong, and will prevail;" and we see the effects of this have been realised. Our society now consists of 500 people: many are flocking to our standard, for when the truth is told them, they find what they heard is only mockery and lies. "Truth shall win its widening way, S. BRADLEY." This morning, at a quarter after eight, the following persons were executed before the Debtors' door, Newgate:-William Henry Lye, for burglary; John Mitchell, for forgery; Francis Sturgess, for highway robbery; Michael Maroney alias Mahoney, for highway robbery; John Field, alias Jona than |